NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)

5120 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (2815MHz vs 1770MHz)

Lower TDP (107W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +277%

21.75 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500 XT

5.765 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +204%

14963

Radeon RX 6500 XT

4920

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +366%

70

Radeon RX 6500 XT

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +303%

125

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +278%

178

Radeon RX 6500 XT

47

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +278%

53

Radeon RX 6500 XT

14

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +242%

65

Radeon RX 6500 XT

19

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +209%

96

Radeon RX 6500 XT

31

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +214%

85

Radeon RX 6500 XT

27

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +180%

146

Radeon RX 6500 XT

52

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +172%

188

Radeon RX 6500 XT

69

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +156%

77

Radeon RX 6500 XT

30

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +165%

114

Radeon RX 6500 XT

43

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti +70%

164

Radeon RX 6500 XT

96

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1575 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

2815 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

2248 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

143.9GB/s

Render Config

48

SM Count

-

Compute Units

16

6144

Shading Units

1024

192

TMUs

64

96

ROPs

32

192

Tensor Cores

-

48

RT Cores

16

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

169.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

90.08 GPixel/s

339.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

180.2 GTexel/s

21.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.53 TFLOPS

21.75 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.765 TFLOPS

339.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Navi 24

GA104-400-A1

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XT (215-135000006)

Ampere

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

6 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

107W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.6

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